Verb

(head)

(delve)

Verb

To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.

* 1381 , John Ball

When Adam dalf and Eve span, / Who was then a gentleman?

* Dryden

Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor.

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I got a spade from the tool-house, and began to delve with all my might - it scraped the coffin; I fell to work with my hands; the wood commenced cracking about the screws; I was on the point of attaining my object, when it seemed that I heard a sigh from some one above, close at the edge of the grave, and bending down.

(ambitransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out

* 1609-11 , Shakespeare, Cymbeline, King of Britain

I cannot delve him to the root.

* 1943 , Emile C. Tepperman, Calling Justice, Inc.!

She was intensely eager to delve into the mystery of Mr. Joplin and his brief case.

(ambitransitive) To dig, to excavate.

* ca. 1260 , Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend

And then they made an oratory behind the altar, and would have dolven for to have laid the body in that oratory ...

* 1891 , , The White Company , chapter IV

Let him take off his plates and delve' himself, if ' delving must be done.

Verb

(head)

(concede)

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Verb

(conced)

To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.

He conceded the race once it was clear he could not win.

Kendall conceded defeat once she realized she could not win in a battle of wits.

To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.

To admit to be true; to acknowledge.

To yield or make concession.

(sports) To have a goal or point scored against

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(cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.